Police officer fatally shoots man in North Carolina

Raleigh Police Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown told reporters that the suspect was running from an officer who sought to arrest him for a drug offense. She said a firearm was found in close proximity to the man.

Williams says the man jumped the fence into the backyard of a house next door.

A Raleigh, North Carolina, police officer on Monday killed a man who was fleeing arrest, authorities said, and a local TV station reported protesters chanting “black lives matter” gathered at the scene.

Police did not identify the officer or the suspect.

Earlier, local television coverage showed police forming a line in the street near the downtown neighborhood where the shooting took place as a number of people gathered at the scene behind yellow crime-scene tape and began chanting “No justice, no peace!” “During the course of the pursuit, the suspect was shot and killed by the officer”. Bishop Darnell Dixon says he thinks people are more concerned about what happened than they are angry.

With tensions rising, President Barack Obama previous year announced $20 million in funding for law enforcement agencies interested in using the cameras. She says she was told by witnesses that Denkins, the father of two, was shot seven times in the back. “And our thoughts and our prayers go out to all involved”, Deck-Brown said in a read statement.

“I heard somebody say, ‘Stop, stop, ‘ then I heard, like, six shots”, Rodriguez told the Raleigh News & Observer.

Bishop Darnell Dixon, who for 20 years has served as pastor of the Bibleway Temple church about a quarter-mile from where the shooting happened, said neighborhood relations with the police have generally been good, and he believed calm would prevail. “Then I heard the screams”. Raleigh police didn’t supply council members with information prior to the meeting, she said. She blamed it on buyers coming in from elsewhere. The public and the victim’s family deserve answers about today’s shooting, and we urge the State Bureau of Investigation and Raleigh Police Department to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation. She said she will send a report to the city manager within five working days.

The SBI has been called in to investigate, which is standard procedure.